Improvement in washers and wringers combined



JESSlE H. MURRAY.l Improvement in Washers andWringers Combined. N0.

Patented May 2,1871.

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JESSIE H. MURRAY, OF

KIRKWooD, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 114,462` dated May 2, 1871.

IIVIPROVEMENII INW'ASHERS AND WRINGERS COMBINED.

The Schedule referred in these Letters Patent and making peut of the lame.

of Broome and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Combined Washing and WringingMachines, of whiclrthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to the combination and arrangement Yof rubber-covered and corrugated rollers, drawn together by suitable metallic springs, which work in a frame placed in a tub or vessel, the object being to obviate ditiiculties which render similar machines inoperative and useless to the public. p

Figure 1 in the accompanyingdrawing is a side elevation of a machine embodying my invention with a section of the tub removed..

Figure 2 is an end elevation vof the same removed from the vessel. A A are the ends of the machine, which, with the longitudinal head-piece B and pieces a a and 0,' constitute the frame.

D is a corrugated wooden roller, hung in movable bearings b b, which work in slots E in the end of the machine, which slots are only made of sufficient length y i'or the required movement of said bearings.

F is a rubber-covered roller with stationary bearings in the end pieces A A, its shaft extendingV through the rim of the tub G for the attachment of the crank H.

The rollers D and F are pressed together by an elliptic spring, l, under the machine; or they may beV drawn together by spiral springs, which springs are adjusted to the required tension for compressing the .work as it passes between said rollers for Washing.

J is the roller which operates'with the roller F for wringing, which is also covered with rubber and hung' in movable bearings, which Work in grooves on the inside of the end pieces A A. This roller may be depressed to the required pressure for wringing by the thumb-screw K, which works' in the center of the head-piece B and bears on the center of a slightlyelastic cross-piece, L, the ends of which engage with said movable bearings, which are made to project above the face of the rollers for that purpose.

M is a wooden roller, over which the clothes are removed from the machine after wringing.

'lheclothes to be washed are placed between the rollers D and F, whenthe crank H is vibrated until the voperation is'accoinplished. The clothes are then placed .between the wringing-roller J and roller F, when the thumb-screw K is turned down until said roller J is suiciently depressed to give the required pressure for wlinging. The crank is then turned and the clothes carried over the roller M from the machine.

The .center piece C, in the base of the trame, prevents the clothes from iioating under the machine and winding around therollers.

The absence 'of the ordinary iron parts in my invention obviates theliability of iron-rust, which is common in the operation of machines of similar construction.

When the ordinary rubber springs areexposed to the action of heated water they soon lose their elas-k ticity, and the common metal-covered roller is found to be inoperative for the double purpose ofwashing and wringing.

I claim as my inventiony y The combination of the elliptic spring I, wooden corrugated roller D, rubber-covered roller F with roller J, head-piece B, thumb-screw K, elastic crosspiece L, and crank H, Iall being constructed and operating substantially as hereinbefore set forth for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: JESSIE H. MURRAY.

S. W. ROGERS, TuoMAs J omvsoN. 

